Some records chase perfection. With Pulp is interested in what perfection removes. Brooklyn-based band Honey VHS built their latest EP around the moments modern production is often designed to erase: the movement between musicians, the unpredictability of a live performance, the rough edge of a vocal and the small imperfections that prove real people were in the room. Recorded largely through live full-band takes, With Pulp embraces texture over polish and connection over pre

Some collaborations sound like two artists meeting in the middle. Flip That Groove and Jazz Minero sound like two worlds colliding at full speed. Recorded between Melbourne and Spain, It’s So Hot, Hace Calor is impossible to pin down. Industrial punk crashes into hip-hop rhythms, theremin wails cut through distorted basslines, and spaghetti western guitars drift across a landscape that feels as suffocating as the title suggests. But beneath the experimentation lies something

Some songwriters write from memory. Others write from imagination. call me su seems to exist somewhere between the two, creating songs that feel less like autobiography and more like strange, beautifully human fables. Populated by dreamers, outcasts, flawed leaders and forgotten souls, her music unfolds like short stories, where the Australian landscape becomes as important as the people wandering through it. Her latest single, Mad King, began with a haunting image of politic

Some artists write songs to entertain. Duxie Franklin writes them to endure. Her latest single, After the Storm, is a powerful reflection on chronic pain, mental health and the quiet resilience required to keep moving through life’s darkest moments. Wrapped in sweeping ’80s-inspired production and striking Australian Gothic visuals, the song balances theatrical beauty with emotional honesty, never allowing one to overshadow the other. Every frame of the accompanying music vid

Pop music has always been brilliant at disguising emotional devastation behind irresistible melodies. Scarlet understands that better than most. Her debut single, teen movies, is filled with glossy hooks, shimmering synth-pop and the kind of chorus that feels instantly familiar. But beneath its bright exterior sits a remarkably honest exploration of infatuation, heartbreak and the messy process of growing up. Rather than romanticising young love, Scarlet examines the stories

Some songs are about getting somewhere. Highway 31 is about everything that happens along the way. For Michigan songwriter Todd Stephen, the open road isn’t simply a backdrop for another country song. It’s a place where memories are made, families reconnect, and the ordinary moments of life become the ones worth remembering. Drawing from decades of performing, songwriting and his career as a paramedic, Stephen writes with the understanding that happiness rarely arrives throug